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Taunton Preliminary Election Will Cost More Than $60,000 To Eliminate One City Council Candidate

August 10, 2021

The city of Taunton will spend money on an election next month that will knock just one candidate off the November 2021 citywide election ballot.

Shaunna O’Connell, the current mayor and a Republican, is running unopposed for re-election, while 19 candidates are running for nine seats on the city council. The top 18 vote getters in the Tuesday, September 21 city council preliminary election will advance to the Tuesday, November 2 general election.

Yet holding the preliminary election will cost Taunton between $60,000 and $65,000, Pamela Menconi, the city’s election director, told the Taunton Daily Gazette.

Also on the ballot are candidates for the city’s planning board, municipal lighting plant commission, and zoning board of appeals. However, none of those will be eliminated in the preliminary election.

 

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